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The Next Picture Show

It (2017) / Stand By Me

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Phobia Death Match: Clowns v Leeches

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0:00.0

Imagine a breakfast wrap.

0:03.0

You know the one, because there really is only one.

0:07.0

Sausage, egg, cheese, bacon and a potato rusty all wrapped together.

0:13.0

Yep, there it is.

0:15.0

I think my work here is done.

0:17.0

Served until 11am.

0:20.0

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the pressure. done. Served until 11 a.m.

0:25.2

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:31.9

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being? We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:38.3

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:42.8

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:45.1

I'm Keith Phipps here with Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias.

0:48.5

Behind the boards is Genevieve Kosky, who's scared of clowns.

0:51.9

Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all

0:55.8

culture is more interesting in context.

0:58.0

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates

1:02.3

to a current movie.

1:03.9

This week, we're walking the rails with a pair of coming-of-age movies adapted from works

1:07.4

by Stephen King.

1:08.8

One follows four childhood friends as they set off in search of a dead body as the summer of 1959 draws to a close. The other features a different group of kids doing their best not to fall victim to an evil clown. Tasha, if you're not too busy considering a Superman Mighty Mouse matchup or being menaced by Harlequins, can you describe these movies? I mean, I am pretty busy being menaced by Harlequins right now.

1:48.9

It's time-consuming, right? It does take a lot of... Well, all of the floating takes a lot of time. I'm just going to float up here near the ceiling and explain these movies. I'm going to try to do that without ineptly trying out obscenities to prove that I'm not a kid anymore. So first we're going to talk about Stand by Me, Rob Reiner's 1986 adaptation of King's novella of the Body from the different seasons collection. It's set in 1950s, Oregon, and it has a simple premise. Four boys go off in search

1:54.4

of a corpse they've heard as somewhere deep in the woods, miles from their small town. But this

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